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Contractors continue work on two new dining facilities in 1800 and 2400 blocks of Fort McCoy.
The facility construction in the 1800 block for the new $13.5 million, 1,428-person annual training/mobilization dining facility began in May 2018 and, as of Aug. 23, was 96 percent complete, said Nathan Butts, contract oversight representative with the Fort McCoy Project Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The project is being constructed by contractor L.S. Black Constructors of St. Paul, Minn., and is supposed to be completed later in 2019.
The construction of the facility in the 2400 block, also a new 1,428-person annual training/mobilization dining facility, began in July 2018. The Louisville, Ky., office of USACE awarded a $12.3 million contract in May for the construction this facility, Butts said.
The contract also was awarded to L.S. Black Constructors Inc. Also as of Aug. 23, this facility was at approximately 84 percent complete.
According to the contract scope of work for each facility, the new facilities are built with food preparation and cooking areas; an entrance/control area; and serving, dining, dishwashing, administration, and locker areas. It will also have a state-of-the-art waste-disposal system, a receiving and loading dock, cold and dry storage, and more.
Once completed, these dining facilities are the fifth and sixth brick-and-mortar dining facilities on post. Additionally, Army Corps of Engineer officials said building a dining facility is different than building other types of facilities and generally takes longer.
“These facilities require lots of specialty equipment, which means additional time is needed to build the connections and lines for that equipment into the infrastructure,” Butts said.
Fort McCoy Food Service Manager Andy Pisney with the Logistics Readiness Center Supply and Services Division said the new dining facilities are needed and will increase food-service capabilities. Pisney’s office oversees the food-service contract for Fort McCoy dining facilities.
“When these facilities are done, they will be more of a unit-operated dining facility,” Pisney said. “It will really work well for those larger units who currently might sign out two or three of our World War II-era facilities to feed their troops. Now they’ll only have to sign out one facility.”
The facilities are being built on several acres of land. They will have large parking lots and plenty of space for customers.
Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.
The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services each year since 1984.
Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”
| Date Taken: | 08.26.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 08.26.2019 12:37 |
| Story ID: | 337443 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
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